"I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin—of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas."
To some, he was famous for being half of the Siskel & Ebert team for various incarnations of At The Movies with Siskel & Ebert (then later, Ebert & Roeper), and is also notable for having written the script for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Of course, he is best known for being a no holds barred, Pulitzer Prize winning film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times. He was the first film critic to be awarded a Pulitzer.
The Chicago Sun-Times summed up his legacy this way:
"Roger Ebert loved movies.
Except for those he hated."
That seems about right to us, too.
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